Archive · 1 Sep 2025
Mumbai Extends Tender Deadline for Outsourcing Hospital Services
The city of Mumbai is allowing private companies to run important medical services in some hospitals.
These services include things like MRI scans, dialysis, and blood banks.
The government delayed the deadline for companies to apply for these contracts.
This plan is similar to a previous plan where private companies ran the services, but it has a new name.
Some people are worried that the companies might charge too much or not provide good service.
BMC extended the deadline for outsourcing key hospital services.
Services include MRI, CT scans, dialysis, cath labs, and blood banks.
The new plan is called the Civic Health Collaboration Model.
Private operators will run services and charge patients at agreed rates.
Health activists express concerns over potential privatization of essential healthcare services.
- Who
- Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
- What
- Extended the tender deadline for outsourcing key hospital services.
- When
- Last week (corrigendum issued)
- Where
- Mumbai, at several peripheral hospitals.
- Why
- To facilitate private operators to provide services like MRI, CT scans, dialysis, cath labs, and blood banks.
- Service Outsourcing
- MRI, CT scans, dialysis, cath labs, and blood banks
- Participating Hospitals
- Rajawadi, M.T. Agarwal, Dr. Ambedkar, Bhabha, Bhagwati
- Tender Deadline Extension
- Three weeks
- Contract Duration
- 10 years, extendable twice
- Dialysis Charges (BMC Patients)
- ₹500 per session